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By Tatiana Lima • Translation by Pilar Boyero • April 10, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. It is also part of RioOnWatch’s #VoicesFromSocialMedia series, which compiles perspectives posted on social media by favela residents and activists about […]

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Update: Statewide Mobilization Day Against Covid-19 in Favelas a Success

By Amanda Scofano, Gianna Giordani, Tatiana Lima • Translation by Clau Guimarães • February 19, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article about Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. With over 70 awareness-raising acts focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, on February 10, favelas and peripheries across the state […]

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Sustainable Favela Network 3rd Annual Meet-Up, Part 5: Virtual Tours of Favela Solar Panels

By Clara Ferraz, Julio Santos Filho • Translation by Pilar Boyero • December 27, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is the fifth article in a series covering the events of the 3rd Annual Full-Network Meet-Up of the Sustainable Favela Network, which happened online on November 7, 2020.  The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) […]

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‘Is Solar Energy in Favelas Possible?’ Debated by Rio’s Sustainable Favela Network [VIDEO]

By Wilson Saiki Junior • Translation by Cormac Whitney Low • June 29, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on favelas and in the series of Teach-Ins on Covid-19 in favelas. On June 10, the Sustainable Favela Network’s (SFN)* Solar Energy Working […]

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Black Lives Matter Protest Gathers Hundreds at Rio Governor’s Palace

By Edmund Ruge • June 1, 2020

Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the office of Rio de Janeiro Governor Wilson Witzel on May 31, protesting the deaths of black and favela youth at the hands of the police. […]

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